DAY IN PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1932, Page 8

DAY IN PARLIAMENT

CITY WATER BILL

•v. A considerable, amount "''"of the time of the : House of Representatives yesterday was devoted to a discussion on. local Bills, chief among which was the Wellington City Empowering and .Amendment Bill, x which gave the '. City. Council authority to devote. the balance of unexpended loan money to waterworks proposals. The Bill was discussed lf or .two. hours and a division was called for on an amendment designed to safeguard the rights of -.local bodies in the Hutt Valley regarding the artesian water supply. The amendment was carried by four votes) ; and the Bill, as amended, was passed. "Other local Bills finally dealt with were fhe Ohai'Railway Board Bill and the Carterton Borough Council and Wairarapa South County Council Empowering Bill.. ' . J '•' ' ■

. The Local Authorities' Sinking Funds Bill, a measure temporarily restricting the rights of local-bodies 'to withdraw sinking funds from the Public Trustee., sinking fund commissioner, was likewise put through all "stages. In. the afternoon, the Labour^ Party raised the v.-qnestiori.; of the jurisdiction :. .of':^ .the •';" Unemployment Board -"in.,, disbanding local unemployment committees; and this subject "wai discussed for an hour and a half; "■ -The; remainder of. the afternoon was spent oh-, the discussion of departmental reports, a; large number of which was disposed "of. f --? '.-•

. The House rose at twenty minutes to 1. o'clock..--this. morningx; ' .